Example sentences of "even [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even during recent years of poor health , his outstanding qualities were riveting charm and mental vitality . |
| 2 | Some CDs are issued for one year and even for two years but the market for these is comparatively thin . |
| 3 | She hated it , and she was afraid of it , because she doubted her power to escape ; even after two years in London , she still thought that her brain might go or that her nerve might snap , and that she would be compelled to return , feebly , defeated , to her mother 's house . |
| 4 | Even after 37 years they give you problems from time to time . ’ |
| 5 | Even after eight years of a government committed to reducing the size of the Civil Service , the number directly employed by the Government in the public sector stands at 585,383 ( Civil Service Statistics , HMSO 1987 , table 3 ) . |
| 6 | Graptolite taxonomy has by no means been fully resolved even after 100 years of research , and new discoveries are still being made . |
| 7 | Even after five years they were finding it a bit difficult in Oxford , you see , a bit sticky . |
| 8 | Even after 11 years in office and in mid-recession , they are neck-and-neck with the conservatives in the opinion polls . |
| 9 | Even after 11 years , the Bhundu Boys look surprised by their popularity . |
| 10 | Failure to recognize and to allow for this may explain why , even after nine years of Thatcherite ‘ political clout ’ , doubt still exists about the extent of real cultural change within Whitehall and whether ‘ lasting reforms ’ have , or ever will be , achieved . |
| 11 | In any case , he was still deceived sometimes , even after six years . |
| 12 | Not that Alice cared about warmth , not even after four years in her mother 's warm house . |
| 13 | Even after four years , they could make every nerve in her body sing with pure jealousy . |
| 14 | Even after eighteen years at Harris , Harris and Overdene he was , he reflected , about as much in the dark on legal questions as Donald was on medical issues . |
| 15 | If recovery is taken for granted , even after many years or even decades , the process switches over from recovery to relapse . |
| 16 | " Slips " can occur at any time in recovery , even after many years or decades and can be much more distressing than the simple term implies . |
| 17 | But yeah , I mean , there was so so many inconsistencies on , on the Irish witness side , you know , like what , what matey said I was , I was running out and all of a sudden I felt a pain from here on those fuck it , he 's up there , got big forearms , and big sort of muscle that size , that 's really wasted this side even after twenty years , it must of about and apparently one matey got shot in the back running away , oh no five out of the thirteen got shot in the back , which again does n't fucking mean any thing , you know that 's , but I said if there 's I R A supporters there and that , you telling me you seen where your comrades have fucking get shot , you 're not , you 're not gon na try and pick up his weapon and stuff I mean like , it was just a perfect opportunity to , to get one over on the British Forces and I , I said I do n't think yet the para 's were entirely blameless , but then again I do n't think they ever have been in any of their fucking |
| 18 | Even after thirty-one years , Dorothea 's memories sweetened her days . |
| 19 | Equally , even after 50 years , the Foreign Office will not place in the Public Record Office any documents relating to the breaking of Japanese codes before or after December 1941 . |
| 20 | Even after 30 years of marriage to Francine , Sacha says he still finds the heart-throb label difficult to live with . |
| 21 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | An inquiry was ‘ inevitable ’ and prosecutions were not ruled out — even after ten years . |
| 23 | This means that although fewer remain childless in the end , more non-manual couples are still childless compared to manual workers even after ten years of marriage . |
| 24 | And we 're trying a different approach both mentally and physically , and I believe he can be a new person even after ten years . |
| 25 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |
| 26 | Even if recovery reduces the PSBR , few economists expect it to dip below £25 billion ( around 4% of GDP ) even after several years of growth . |
| 27 | Even after 25 years of world-wide exposure , the Marilyn continues to make its impact and it is included in the impressive exhibition of American screenprints from the collection of Reba and Dave Williams which fills the Hunterian Art Gallery of Glasgow University . |
| 28 | The longest serving clerical workers , whose responsibilities include juggling patient admissions with spare beds , can only expect £6,235 , that 's even after 25 years ' experience . |
| 29 | Debbie Pitman , who runs the Reebajaz clothing company is moving out of her shop in the Gloucester docks because she claims that , even after 2 years , hardly anyone knows she 's there . |
| 30 | Local environmentalists have fiercely criticized the fact that unsafe conditions still exist at the plant even after three years of clean-up work . |